On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > I'm now going to clean up the mess and restore config from backup, and I > > > will check out the postinst afterwards, if I find more problems, or a > > > patch for this, I will add to this report and/or open another one. > > > > No need to. I know where the problem is (unfortunatly). > > Ok, that's half of the reason I didn't yet do so (other reason: RL) > > I noticed the problem, IMHO is in the cp -f modules.conf > modules.conf.old without any checking wether old exists, so only keeping > one backup (and on postinst rerun original modules.conf is lost).
Yes i have this in mind as well. I am evaluating the possibility to perform a full backup of the configs each time since now we have the tool to do so. > > > Above this, why modules-config? You cannot add comments next to the > > > loadmodule line like this?! > > > > sorry but i don't understand what you mean. > > Without modules-config, you can maintain a configuration fragment with > the LoadModule lines, and have comments above them, as a kind of > reminder for yourself: what is it, what's it relevance to my own system, > and why did I disable/enable this module. > > With modules-config, that is AFAICS impossible. that's correct because it is generated automatically. Maintaing comments inside isn't impossible just a lot more work for modules-config. I consider this as a wishlist but i will see if i can find the time to fix it after this bug that is more important. > Okay, I agree & understand here :), thanks for the explaination. > > So I understand you will in the future mimic apache2's way of handling > apache-modules? I believe that would greatly improve Debian's > consistency. Yes that's correct. As you might have noticed we already started introducing conf.d as a testbed and several packages are using it. Next steps will be to introduce the modules structure. > ... indeed, I don't blame anyone, my goal is to provide an as useful as > possible bugreport to assist apache-maintainers fixing it in order to > prevent this bug slip into sarge :) > > Sorry if I was unclear about this, and thanks for all the good work. Thanks to you! Fabio -- Our mission: make IPv6 the default IP protocol "We are on a mission from God" - Elwood Blues http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-nanog-200210-ipv6isp/mgp00004.html